NY Times: Why Baghdad Wants Kirkuk So Badly

On Nov. 3, 2017, the New York Times explained the energy situation in Kurdish Iraq — and why Baghdad so fervently fought to win Kirkuk back from the Kurds last week. As an aside, a peshmerga from the village described in The Kurdish Bike was killed in early November fighting to hold Kirkuk against Shiite militia forces (reportedly funded by Iran).